"phone home" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: phones home [present, singular, third-person], phoning home [participle, present], phoned home [participle, past], phoned home [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} phone home (third-person singular simple present phones home, present participle phoning home, simple past and past participle phoned home)
  1. (intransitive, literally) To make a telephone call to one's home. Tags: intransitive, literally
    Sense id: en-phone_home-en-verb-b0IBFL6i
  2. (intransitive, informal) To contact a remote service for instructions, identification, etc. Tags: informal, intransitive
    Sense id: en-phone_home-en-verb-GxghzdMS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 84 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 25 75 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 86

Inflected forms

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